Veryan Weston - Tessellations for Lutheal Piano
A concert performance using a very rare Luthéal piano, playing a sequence of 52 closely linked pentatonic scales. “Visual interlocking symmetries and geo..(read more)
Label: Emanem / 4095
Artist: Veryan Weston
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Piano, UK.
Volcano the Bear - Catonapotato
Their genius still impresses, even if the sound quality is not really perfect. Recordings of concerts in 2004 in Leicester, Sheffield & Paris by this fantas..(read more)
Label: Digitalis / digi014
Artist: Volcano the Bear
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Avant-Rock, Improvisation.
Various Artists - Sound Off 2002
From the Czech Republic, a CD and 64pp booklet (full of texts, pictures and art involving typewriters). Sound pieces by Carl Stone, Ken Montgomery, Al Margolis,..(read more)
Label: Hermes Discorbie / HDCD004
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Czech Republic, Sound Art.
Various Artists - Frog Peak Collaborations Project
62 composers, 115 pieces, all based on a brief soundfile by Australian composer/poet/performer Chris Mann, reading a text he supplied himself. Plus the original..(read more)
Label: Frog Peak / FP007
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Spoken Word.
Various Artists - Experimental Music from Lithuania
Unknown gems of the avantgarde in this Baltic state. Opener ‘Merz-Machine’ from 1985 by Sarunas Nakas is amazing enough, ‘Telefonika’ by..(read more)
Label: LCU / 2
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Eastern Europe.
Various Artists - As She Likes It – Female Performance Art from Austria
In the 1960s and 1970s actionism and happenings provided a foundation for performance art, the exceptional form in which women are as numerous but more recogniz..(read more)
Label: Index / 23
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Austria, Avant-Garde, Performance Art, Video Art.
Peter Tscherkassky - Films from a Dark Room
With an almost musical montage stye, Tscherkassky superimposes & juxtaposes black&white images, plays with illusions of peace & ecstatic release. He..(read more)
Label: Index / 8
Artist: Peter Tscherkassky
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Abstract Cinema, Austria, Avant-Garde, Experimental.
New Electric Chamber Music Ensemble - The Spirit of Eindhoven
Talking about obscure material at last being brought out again, here’s some history from the City of Eindhoven in the 60s and thereafter. This collective ..(read more)
Label: BV&R / ISBN: 978-90-9020691-2
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '70s, Avant-Garde, Early Electronic, Free Jazz.
New Circle Five - Dreaming Wide Awake
Spanning 3 generations, Monique Buzzart? (trombone, didjeridu, conch), Rosi Hertlein (violin, voice), Susie Ibarra (perc.), Kristin Norderval (soprano) & Pa..(read more)
Label: Deep Listening / 2003
Artist: New Circle Five
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Improvisation.
